private String getBinPart(Entity part) throws IOException {

        BinaryBody bb = (BinaryBody) part.getBody();

        ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();

        return new String(baos.toByteArray());

    }

    /*

     * taken from http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/james/mime4j/trunk/examples/src/main/java/org/apache/james/mime4j/samples/transform/TransformMessage.java

        try {

            Body b = e.getBody();

            if (b instanceof BinaryBody) {

                bb = (BinaryBody) b;

            } else {

                // This could potentially be other types. Only seen this once.

            }

        } catch (IOException ex) {

            logger.log(Level.INFO, "Failed to write mbox email attachment to disk.", ex); //NON-NLS